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The Drake Diner stops breakfast at 11. A diner! Further proof Iowa sucks.

— Shebinator, one of two local bloggers I know of who was actually in Iowa last night. If there were others, please educate me.

Shelby’s feelings about Iowa might be colored by the fact that his favorite Democrat, Sen. Joseph Biden, dropped out of the race after his poor showing.

Or maybe Iowa just really, really sucks.

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The Clinton machine will do its best to slime Obama in the coming days, but — and I’ve been waiting to say this for years — their time has passed. The race is clearly defined now, and I don’t see voters opting for polarization over real change.

— ATLMalcontent on the perhaps fatally wounded candidacy of the senator he likes to call Hillbot.

Mr. Malcontent also lavished praise on Obama’s victory speech (which really was amazing), noting the similarities between Obama’s gift for rhetorical uplift and the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s.

Sen. Clinton also evokes RFK’s memory, but not in the same way. Like RFK, Clinton is attempting to return her family to the White House via a carpetbagged New York Senate seat.

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It’s clear that the voters want change-now they have to look hard at Edwards and Obama and decide just what sort of change they really want.

— Amy Morton at Georgia Women Vote was in Iowa last night. As you might have gathered from the order in which the names appear, she’s an Edwards supporter.

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Therefore, I support Mike Huckabee because he wants to get the federal government out of my pocket by endorsing the “Fair Tax”.

— The Oracle of Winder, posting at BuzzBrockway.com, supports Mike Huckabee for no other reason, he says, than because Huckabee supports the national sales tax scheme known as the Fair Tax.

You may recall in September 2007 that Osama bin Laden released a video in which he called the U.S. tax system “insane” and bragged that, under Islamic law, Americans would not have to pay it.

Expect to see Huckabee/bin Laden ‘08 yard signs popping up in Winder any day now.

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Rush spent most of the program bashing Huckabee, like most conservative pundits have taken to doing.

— Peach Pundit commenter John Konop, posting the blog’s Iowa caucus open thread, notes the Republican punditocracy’s failure to drive a wedge between Huckabee and Republican voters.

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The stupid and superstitious have spoken - they said “Give us the televangelist. GIVE US THE HUCKLEBERRY!”

Yeehaw!

— Peach Pundit commenter GodHatesTrash in the same open thread.

If you haven’t guessed, Peach Pundit’s open thread on Iowa is great, great reading.

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If the City of Atlanta runs out of water, I say we stink - and we would be the first large American city to allow it to happen.

– Ashley at Random Atlanta, in a post titled “This lack of water thing is freaking me out”

I don’t know about you, but I’m gonna start referring to the drought as “this lack of water thing.”

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Imagine an ice cream cone upside down lined with rooms and squashed a little so its cross section is more oval than round… Then make it 500 feet tall and take the elevators up to the 41st floor (higher ones need keys).

– Chris at Food, Travel And Exercise is impressed by the Marriott Marquis Downtown, designed by Atlanta architect John Portman. The atrium he describes is the supposedly the world’s tallest.

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The pushback here-the claim that those of us who dare to suggest that Marshall support this legislation are just short of being socialists-is a classic Roverian technique, and in this instance has strong overtones of race-baiting. It’s not working.

Do the right thing, Jim. Vote to override.

– Amy Morton at Georgia Women Vote wants Rep. Jim Marshall, D-Ga., to vote to override President Bush’s veto of legislation funding health care for uninsured children.

What a coincidence. So do I.

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“He’s got medals on his chest! He’s done stuff!”

— GriftDrift links to “Leave General Petraeus alone,” a brilliant and tragic pastiche of the popular “Leave Britney alone” that appeared online after Spears’ weekend TV performance was savaged.

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Jeremy, in his early 20’s, is a friend of my son’s, and Jeremy told us he’d just joined the Marines. His recruiter told him that, most likely, he’s headed for Baghdad after he finishes his Paris Island training next month.

— Amy Morton at Georgia Women Vote worries about what the Iraq war is doing to people like her son’s friend Jeremy.

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Which of the following does George W. Bush need the most?

1. A milk enema.
2. A psychiatric examination.
3. A kick in the ass.
4. A one-way ticket to Baghdad with full desert gear.
5. An impeachment resolution.
6. All the above.

— Wilson R. Smith of the blog and podcast What Is Goin’ On? suggests possible ways to help President Bush get back in touch with reality.

Just out of curiosity, would you kick him in the ass before or after the milk enema?

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Floating around the Atlanta blogosphere today …

In anticipation of Pride weekend, I Saw It on Ponce sums up the Atlanta Eagle’s appeal (or, depending on your preference, unappeal) with a single revealing photo.

Amy Morton at Georgia Women Vote comments on the effort of some Southern Baptist leaders to get followers to make more babies.

And Brian Bannon at The Self-Abasement Tapes opines on over-bumper-stickered cars.

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